{"id":20204,"date":"2011-01-26T08:56:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T12:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20204"},"modified":"2011-01-26T08:56:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T12:56:44","slug":"uk-universities-eye-and-keep-an-eye-on-new-hedge-fund-punts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/uk-universities-eye-and-keep-an-eye-on-new-hedge-fund-punts.html","title":{"rendered":"UK universities eye and keep an eye on new hedge fund punts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Pension schemes are moving away from the usual equity\/bond\/real estate mix to put their eggs in as many baskets as possible. No wonder then that the USS \u2014 the 31.6 billion pounds\u00a0UK universities pension fund \u2014 is putting an extra 1.5 percent of its assets, or about 474 million pounds, into hedge funds, as\u00a0its CIO Roger Gray\u00a0tells Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>If you are rushing\u00a0to the phone to pitch business with Mr Gray, however, STOP a minute\u00a0fund manager: be prepared, the USS is not only eyeing alpha, it is going to ask a few questions about how alpha is distributed and how investors are protected.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/fundshub\/2011\/01\/26\/uk-universities-eye-and-keep-an-eye-on-new-hedge-fund-punts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Pension schemes are moving away from the usual equity\/bond\/real estate mix to put their eggs in as many baskets as possible. No wonder then that the USS \u2014 the 31.6 billion pounds\u00a0UK universities pension fund \u2014 is putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20206,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204\/revisions\/20206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}